Resources

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Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network: http://www.wnjpin.net

MISSION STATEMENT

With a commitment to the highest standard of customer service, we will ensure the opportunity for employment at fair wages in a safe environment; enhance the quality of the State's labor force and labor market activities; stimulate economic growth; promote labor management harmony; and administer income support services to unemployed or disabled workers.

URBAN MISSION STATEMENT

To support redevelopment in urban areas through the allocation of employment and training resources in cooperation with local Workforce Investment Boards. This program benefits urban centers by linking employers, educators and government representatives in a network that provides localized job training to workers who would otherwise find it difficult to secure employment.

The Office of Customized Training within the Division of Business Services prioritizes the awarding of training grant dollars to eligible urban employers, to fund workforce training projects that can create new employment and retain existing business and jobs. Referral by One-Stop-Career Centers for job opportunities are available to unemployed urban workers.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

Division of Business Services
Brian Peters, Director (609) 292-6852

• Customized Training (CT)
  Provides matching training grants to employers to creation and retention of high skill, high wage jobs in New Jersey through comprehensive workforce training. This training plays a vital role in upgrading worker skills to assist New Jersey employers or businesses in remaining competitive in the new global economy.
  CONTACT: (609) 292-2239
• Response Team
  Response Team is available to assist employers involved in a closing or permanent layoff. Rapid Response specialists work with company personnel to design workforce transitioning programs. Program services emphasize the reemployment assistance and community resources available to affected employees. Every closing and layoff is unique and services are designed according to company needs, schedules, and hours of operations. All Response Team services are free.
  CONTACT: 1-800-343-3919
• Employer HR Support Unit
  Provides free confidential assistance to employers who need to improve management practices and workplace policies for sound, legal and productive business operations and for retention and development of employees. Job analysis, reduction of turnover and absenteeism, employee handbooks, selection and hiring, and performance appraisal systems are areas for which services are frequently provided. Low-cost employer seminars on HR management topics are conducted throughout the year.
  CONTACT: (609) 984-3518
• Youth Transitions to Work Program (YTTWP)
  Establishes new apprenticeship programs for high wage, high skill labor demand occupations, and links these programs with existing apprenticeship programs with secondary schools and institutions of higher education. Local consortia of businesses, business organizations, labor organizations, and educational institutions can apply for funding to implement such an initiative. YTTWP seeks to provide effective transitions for high school graduates into new and existing apprenticeship programs, thereby creating opportunities for life-long occupational relevant learning and career advancement.
  CONTACT: (609) 984-3534.

DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING

CONTACT: Janice E. Pointer, Director (609) 292-5834

• Labor Exchange
  Workforce New Jersey Labor Exchange is the job finding infrastructure for the One-Stop service delivery system. It provides no fee service to individuals seeking employment and to employers seeking workers.
  CONTACT: ( 609) 984-2477
• Work First
  The focus of services by the DOL for the Work First New Jersey (WFNJ) program is private sector employment via direct placement and job development services. The DOL has integrated its labor exchange services for WFNJ participants into the Workforce New Jersey One-Stop Career Center delivery system. A positive recruitment initiative was added to assist community based job search providers in providing DOL labor exchange services within their facilities.
  CONTACT: (609) 984-6091
• Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
  The Work force Investment Act is a federally funded program that provides training and employment assistance, as well as supportive services to eligible individuals. Although vocational training is the primary purpose of WIA, training is available in a wide range of subject areas. State and local governments, together with the private sector have primary responsibility for development, management, and administration of the training programs under WIA.
  CONTACT: (609) 292-8852
• Certification Alien Labor
  This unit processes applications for employers who wish to employ individuals from a foreign country. They attest to the fact that there is no available U.S. worker for the position and the employer is offering the prevailing wage for the position.
  CONTACT: (609) 777-1892
• Job Order Listing
  This unit is the central order-taking unit for the Division. Employers wishing to place a job order with the Employment Service of the Department of Labor are to be directed to contact this number.
  CONTACT: 1-800--233-5055 or FAX: 1-800-822-2259
• Work Opportunities Tax Credit (WOTC)
  This unit processes applications for TRA certification, which are filed by individuals who have lost their job because of foreign trade as determined by the federal government. They also process training applications and tuition payments for those individuals eligible for job training through this program
  CONTACT: (609) 292-1813 or (609) 292-5156.

DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION (DVRS)

Thomas G. Jennings, Director (609) 292-5987
DVRS provides services to eligible individuals with disabilities to secure employment consistent with their strengths, priorities, needs, abilities and capabilities.

LABOR PLANNING AND ANALYSIS (LPA)

Vivian Shapiro, Assistant Commissioner (609) 292-2643

• NJDOL Library
  Repository for all NJDOL labor-related publications; provides research assistance in the compilation and analysis of labor market information to NJDOL employees only; limited on-line access available via the internet
  CONTACT: (609) 984-3400
• Consumer Price Index/Cost of Living
  CONTACT: New York (212) 337-3440
  Philadelphia (215) 596-1154
• New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NJOICC)
  Information for personal career decision-making and occupationally related labor market information, including the Career Information Delivery System (CIDS).
  CONTACT: 1-800-222-1309
• Publications
  Maintains mailing lists for labor-related publications produced by the Office of Labor Planning and Analysis; also responsible for the design, layout, and distribution of LPA publications.
  CONTACT: (609) 633-6434
• Populations Statistics/ New Jersey State Data Center
  Serves as a repository for all U.S. Bureau of the Census Information; produces population estimates and projections.
  CONTRACT: (609) 292-0076
• Building Permits (Residential)
  Provides monthly and annual residential building permit data for New Jersey, its counties and municipalities.
  CONTACT: (609) 984-7349
• Unemployment Estimates
  Provides unemployment rates and other labor force information for New Jersey, its labor areas, counties and municipalities; maintains information on labor surplus and areas designated by the Immigration Act of 1990.
  CONTACT: (609) 292-2568
• Occupation and Industry Projections
  Produces long-term industry and occupational projections for New Jersey and its counties; develops industry staffing pattern information.
  CONTACT: (609) 984-2170
• Non-farm Employment Estimates
  Produces non-farm establishment employment estimates by industry for New Jersey and its labor areas; produces hours and earnings for manufacturing workers.
  CONTACT: (609) 292-2625
• Occupational Wages
  Includes occupational wage information from Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) wage survey for the state and labor areas.
  CONTACT: (609) 292-2661
• Employer Listings
  Provides names and addresses of New Jersey establishments covered by the UI law. Available for New Jerseys and counties.
  CONTACT: (609) 984-5589
• Standard Industrial Classification/North American Industry Classification System
  Provides a systematic coding system of employees by industry
  CONTACT: (609) 292-2572
• Personal Income
  Contains personal income, personal income by source and disposable income. Data is based on U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) income estimates. Available for New Jersey and its counties.
• Affirmative Action/EEO Statistical Information
  Provides information for the completion of affirmative action plans or to meet equal opportunity requirements
  CONTACT: (609) 984-7349
• Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Statistical Information
  Conducts annual survey of employees and compiles statistical information about certain types of workplace injury incidents
  CONTACT: (609) 633-0755
• Workers' Compensation Statistics
  Compiles summary statistics from Workers' Compensation case information
  CONTACT: (609) 292-8998